Dr. Ron Kramer is a professor of sociology at Western Michigan University.

Kramer is a longtime peace and justice activist and founding member of Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War. He has been on the executive board of the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society since 1985 and he founded the annual Peace and Justice Education Week at the University in 1983.

Formerly the co-producer and host of the community access television program WMU Forum (1987 to 1995), Kramer was also part of the collective that produced the award-winning television program "Critical Issues, Alternative Views," which aired on the Public Media Network in Kalamazoo from 2001 to 2011. He is co-chair of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Study Group on Climate Change at the WMU Center for the Humanities.